GrandMOM to be....

[Nicos]

Well- it's official....
Bertha has been nesting on 2 eggs and a wooden one since Sunday ( I didn't interfere this time)
...so.....GrandMOM -to -be roughly 1st or 2nd February....let the countdown begin!!!!

[Bephlam]

Ooo...eggciting!! Let's hope she doesn't change her mind - now that you've got your hopes up!!

[Nicos]

Nope- I'm not going to get all excited-

....well...maybe a little!!!

[MaureenHall]

So we've got to go through all the floor pacing again!! Oh heck, only just got over Lynda's lot Hope it all goes well though, and this is a different experience isn't it, having the MUM doing the incubating! Please keep us posted, otherwise we'll all have to gang up and get over to your foreign parts and mug you

[FionaH]

Oooh can i come? Great news hon

[lynda66]

i definitely recommend mum doing the incubating lol ...... at least you don't have to keep staring at them in the house ...... is also all very excited ..... and saves me having to grow my own, cos i can look at yours instead

[Nicos]

I love the fact that she's lovingly caring for a wooden egg!!!
Oh well- 2 babies- one for under each wing eh????

[lynda66]

i think you shold have swapped the wooden one lol .... then you'd have one for under the bum too

[HayleyB]

WOW, GrandMOM, congratulations, heres to hippy chicks

[Nicos]

i think you shold have swapped the wooden one lol .... then you'd have one for under the bum too

Well-I messed about with her before- and as she's only young I thought I'd just leave her to it. I had hoped she would have laid a couple more- but still- it's the first of a few (I hope!)

Do you know when they start laying again once the chicks have hatched????

[lynda66]

no idea, i never had real chooks and i don't think the postie actually laid em so i can't ask her ....... maybe as a first time mummy, she decided 2 was enough lol

[Flummery]

Might you get a wooden chick from it? Nice on the mantlepiece!

[HayleyB]

Aunty Flum you beat me to it

[Nicos]

Update....

When OH went to check on Bertha at our bedtime one of her eggs was not fully tucked away under her feathers- so he gently pocked it into place . ( hope it wasn't too chilled)

Went in this morning and she's moved the nest a little - looks like some of the other birds had nipped in to see her ( droppings), and the cardboard box next to her had been moved- looks like she may have chased off one of the cockerels.

Otherwise Bertha looks as contented as ever.

[Nicos]

Hmmm...

Just put the others to bed- and the wooden egg and one of the others were not under her
So- I've removed the wooden one- and pushed the luke-warm one back underneath.
Do you reckon that one may not be viable now( after Lynda's problem of too cool?)

Sort of have a feeling that I'm not going to have chicks now

Should I pop a couple of todays eggs under her- but mark them first????- or just leave it be?
(Other 2 eggs were laid Sun and Mon)